- Oct 27, 2018
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Hi everyone, I need help trying to figure things out here. I work from home on a company provided laptop that is currently connected to my comcast gateway (TG1682), like all of my personal devices, for internet access so I can connect to my company's VPN. I was given an old mini mac that I decided to use as a NAS to connect a couple of hard drives I had lying around so my wife and I could share pictures, music, etc between her Macbook and my personal Dell laptop. The problem is that the shared drives also show up in the file explorer on my work laptop.
I want to be able to completely isolate the work laptop so it can't see my personal devices and my personal devices cannot see it. I know my work scanned my work laptop once when I had an external drive connected for a backup that I also used to backup my personal laptop and they flipped out because I had personal files attached. I would assume they would also be able to see the personal files on the shared drive.
I am definitely out of my element here so I apologize if anything I say or ask is stupid, I really couldn't find what I wanted by searching online, which almost never happens. Because of the layout of my house the gateway is on the main floor with my wife's Mac wired into one of the ethernet ports on the back of the gateway. Another port off of the gateway goes to a switch in the basement where my office is located and my work laptop, personal laptop and NAS are wired to that.
If I need to purchase a small router for the work laptop I need to be able to have it in the office as well. If I can keep all personal devices connected to the Gateway, either by cable or wireless, the way they are now that would be great. The separate network for work PC does not need wireless capability. I am not sure if I could connect a new router to a port on the switch to accomplish anything. Please advise on the easiest solution!
Thanks!
I want to be able to completely isolate the work laptop so it can't see my personal devices and my personal devices cannot see it. I know my work scanned my work laptop once when I had an external drive connected for a backup that I also used to backup my personal laptop and they flipped out because I had personal files attached. I would assume they would also be able to see the personal files on the shared drive.
I am definitely out of my element here so I apologize if anything I say or ask is stupid, I really couldn't find what I wanted by searching online, which almost never happens. Because of the layout of my house the gateway is on the main floor with my wife's Mac wired into one of the ethernet ports on the back of the gateway. Another port off of the gateway goes to a switch in the basement where my office is located and my work laptop, personal laptop and NAS are wired to that.
If I need to purchase a small router for the work laptop I need to be able to have it in the office as well. If I can keep all personal devices connected to the Gateway, either by cable or wireless, the way they are now that would be great. The separate network for work PC does not need wireless capability. I am not sure if I could connect a new router to a port on the switch to accomplish anything. Please advise on the easiest solution!
Thanks!
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